LIBRARY NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14926, 31 August 1910, Page 10

LIBRARY NOTES.

During the past month 126 volumes have been added to tho Dunediii Athonreum Library, among the recent' acquisitions being a < considerable number of interesting biographies, as well as works iir other dopM'tmcnls of literature. Tho following i 3 a list of the latest accessions: — Biography and Correspondence— "Georgo Borrow, the Man and His Work," by 11. A. J. Walling; " Correspondence of Thoinus Carlyle and Jairo Welsh," edited by Alex. Carlyle; "Memoirs of Men a.nd Books," by Alfred J. Church; "Lady Randolph Churohil!," by Mrs Georgo Cornwnllis West;'"Gambctta, Life and Letters," by P. B, Gheusi; "Concerning Lafcadia Hearn," by George M. Gould; "Empress Josephine, Napoleon's Enchantress," by Philip W. Sergeant; " Tho Letters of Martin Luther," by Margaret A. Ourrio; "Lady Mary Wortley Montague and Her Times," by. George Pasfcon;• "Elizabeth Montague, 1720-1761," by Emily'J. Climenson; "Perdita" (Mary Robinson), by Stanley V. MtieKowcr; "Madamo Do Pompadour," by 11. Noel Williams; "Great Raleigh." by Hugh dc Sclincourt; "Madame P.ecamier," by Edouard Herriot; "Ilomseau and the Women He Loved," by Francis Gribble; "Rominisconoes of My Life," by Charles Santley; "The Eomanco of Georgo Villiors," by Pllilip Gibbs;. "Beau Brummell and His Times," by Roger Boutft de Monvel; "James II and His Wives," by Allan Fca; "The King Over fcfio Water," by A. Shield and Andrew Lang; "Devonshire .Characters and Strange Events," by S. Baring-Gould; "Tho Real Ninon Do L'Bnclos," by Hcleir Kendrick Hayes; "Charles James Fox," by J. L. Ls B. Hammond; " Mary Boyle, Her Book," edited by' Sir Courtenay Boyle; "Stovenronimra, an amecdotal 'life and appreciation of Robert Louis Stcverrson," by J. A. iiammcrton; "• Prophets,.' Priests, and Kings," by A. G. Gardiner; "Tho Sisters of Napoleon," by Joseph Tinquan; "Georgo Meek, Bath Chairman," by Himselfj "A Japanese Artist in London," by Yoshio Markino; "Sir Henry Morton 'Stanley," .autobiography; "Tho People's King, a Short Life of .Edward VII," by W, HoltWhite. •.;' '

History and Geography.—" A Land of Romance," by Jean Lang; "Labour in Portuguese West Africa," by William A. Cadbury; "Bath Under Bean Nash," by Lewis Melville; "Holland House Cirela," by Moyd Sanders; "The Salon: A Study oi "reuch Society in tho Eighteenth Confury," by. Hel-n. Clcrgue; "In the Strange South Seas," by Beatrice Grimshaw; "New Zealand Revisited," by Sir John Eldon , Gorst; "Hyde Park: Its History and Romance," by Mrs , ..Alec. Twccdie; "Panama. Canal and Its Makers," by Vaughan Cornish; "Ccmic History of lii.gh'Ml." by Gilbert Abbott A : Beckett; "'Tribunal of the Terror," by G. Lcnotro; '•'Trailing and Camping in Alaska," by "oaison M. Powell, Science.—" Essays, Biographical and Chemical," by William Ramsay; "Tlio Laws of Heredity," by G. Archdall Reid. 'Sociai and Political' Science.—"We Women and Our Authors," by Laura Mar- ' holm Hanson; ",Tho' 'Methods of Taxation," by David Mucgregor Means. Philosophy and Religion.—" Tho Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism," by Herewara Carrington. Useful Arts.—" Common Salt," by C. Godfrey Gunipel. Fine and Recreative Arte.—" Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do," . by various writers. Pc-Stry and.! Drama.—"Poems and -Baliads," first and third scries, by Algernon Charles Swinburne. "Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems," by Algernon Charks Swinburne; "Man and Superman," a comedy, by Bernard Shaw. Miscellaneous—"Peace and Happiness," by Lord Avebury; "Blackstick Papers," by Lady Ritchie; "Thoughts on Living Subjects," by Robert P. Downes; "Literature and Life," by W. D. Howells. Fiction.—" The Colonel's Past," by Florence Warden; "A Fair Martyr," by John Blonndclle-Burton; "Tlio Rajah's People," by I. A. R. Wylro; "Samuel tho Seeker," by Upton Sinclair; "Cavanagh, Forest Ranger," by Hamlin Garland; " The Rod of Justice," by Alice and Claudo Askew; " Under Seal of the Confessional," by Mrs Coulson Keniahan; "Waylaid by Wireless," by Edwin Zalmer; "Told in tho Dog Watches," by Frank T. Bullen; "Tho Other Side," by Horace Annosley Vachcll; "Tho Wo6t. End," by Percy White; "Doctor Roast," by James Oppcnhcim; " Personal ■ Conduct. of Belinda," by Eleanor lioyt Brainera; "A Village of Vagabonds," 'by F. Berkeley .Smith; " Whirlwind's Year," by Nat Gould; "The House of the Majority," bv' G. Dc Vauriard; "Tho Lioness of Mayfair," by Anna Comtesse Do Bremont; "Convict 413 L," by Marie Connor Leighton ;_ " Freda," by Katharine Tynan; ■" In a White Palace, by Louise Mack;'"The Running Fight," by William Hamilton Osborne; "Tho Royal Americans;" by Mary Hallcck Footc; "Rancher Cartarct," by Harold Bindloss; "A Cavalier of Virginia." by G. E. Theodore Roberts; "Dan Morrithew," by Lawrence Perry; "Pardlicrs," by. Rex E. Beach; "The Ram. rodders," by Holman Day; "Mistress Cynthia," by May Wynne; "ContainFraser's Profession," bv John Strange Winter; "The Danger Trail," by James Oliver Curwood; "The Stowawav," bv T/>uis Tracy; "The Peacock of Jewels," by Fergus Him-.e; "Tlio Four Flushes," by John E. Hazzard; "Street of Adventure," by Philip Gibl-s.